The sterile microfilamentous lichenized fungi Cystocoleus ebeneus and Racodium rupestre are relatives of plant pathogens and clinically important dothidealean fungi

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-56

  Muggia, Lucia ^a   Hafellner, Josef ^a   Wirtz, Nora ^b   Hawksworth, David L ^c   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Black yeasts; Dothideomycetidae; Lifestyles; Medical mycology; Molecular phylogeny; Mycosphaerellaceae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

GENETIC ANALYSIS; LICHEN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; STERILITY; TAXONOMY; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUSTRIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASCOMYCOTA; AUSTRIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ITALY; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; CAPNODIALES; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CYSTOCOLEUS EBENEUS; DOTHIDEALES; FUNGI; MYCOSPHAERELLACEAE; RACODIUM;

EID: 39749174477     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.08.025     Document Type: Article

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